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Scott Weiland is speaking out further on his situation with Stone Temple Pilots, who fired their singer from the group last month.

Currently on a solo tour, Weiland tells Cleveland’s Scene magazine that the last few tours with STP haven’t been particularly inspiring.

“My philosophy is that I don’t feel like going on the road and playing a greatest hits set that we’ve been playing for five years,” he says. “We’ve been doing that and in the midst of doing that, we made an album that took us a year-and-a-half. That’s not the way STP makes records. We make records in two weeks. If we’re going to do something, we need to get back in the studio with Brendan O’Brien who has a track record with us and get re-inspired artistically again. We need to do it that way and get out there on the road and get out there with some excitement and not just turn our legacy into what Journey or Foreigner is. That’s not what we’re about. That’s not why we got into this. That’s not at all what I’m about.”

Instead, he thinks that Soundgarden’s approach to touring is more appropriate. The band has continued to record new songs and dig deep into its catalogue since reforming three years ago.

“Yeah. I think that’s very cool,” he says. “More than anything, we’ve been a great live band. The reason why critics didn’t like us because they thought we were one thing that we weren’t. They thought we sounded like a Seattle band. We proved those critics wrong over our career and changed from album to album. We didn’t sound like the Beatles, but we took that blueprint and the idea of being a band. Sure, there are some bands that have one sound and do it really well. But we looked at the idea of the Beatles and thought to really do it right, we had to evolve. We had to go into a cocoon every once in a while and come out as a butterfly and not an ugly moth.”

Weiland is working on a new solo album with his band, The Wildabouts.